‘By
the people, for the people’: Kim Dotcom to launch alternative internet

Kim
Dotcom, wanted in the US for alleged widespread illegal file sharing,
has vowed to build an alternative internet to combat privacy and
freedom problems online.

The knowledge that
government agencies have used the internet to spy on citizens, along
with high-profile hacking scandals, has brought online privacy to
the forefront of people’s minds.

Megaupload founder Kim
Dotcom says he will help facilitate an unobstructed internet, free
from prying eyes, through MegaNet, which will operate without IP
addresses. The German entrepreneur is currently resisting
extradition to the US from New Zealand over alleged copyright
infringement.

I have been working on this for a long
time. Mobile networks and devices will be ready for
this in 4-5 years. When it goes live our dream of
true Internet Freedom shall become reality. The
upcoming K.im and Bitcache apps can provide the
initial critical mass for this new network.https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/567431874578894849 …

Dotcom, who believes
the internet to be a new frontier of rough-and-tumble lawlessness
like the Wild West, previously described his alternative internet
idea as “indestructible, uncontrollable & encrypted”.

“The
current corporate internet will be replaced by a better Internet,
running on the idle capacity of hundreds of millions of mobile
devices,”Dotcom said.“Run by the people for the
people. Breaking net-neutrality will only accelerate the adoption
of a new network.”

The current corporate Internet will be
replaced by a better Internet, running on the idle
capacity of hundreds of millions of mobile devices.
Run by the people for the people. Breaking
net-neutrality will only accelerate the adoption of
a new network. But first K.im and Bitcache.

The development will
ensure internet freedom will become a reality, he added.“I have been working on this
for a long time. Mobile networks and devices will be ready for
this in four-five years.”

It comes as the US
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to kill net neutrality
next month. In 2015, the sameagencyadopted
an“open
internet order”which it said prohibited
companies from restricting legal internet use or carrying out paid
prioritization for certain services.

The new position has
been pitched as a bid to restore internet freedom, but critics argue
that any rollback will allow internet service providers much greater
control over what people can and cannot see online. FCC chairman
Ajit Pai believes repealing net neutrality will facilitate greater
investment and innovation.

“This
burdensome regulation has failed consumers and businesses alike,”Pai
said in a Wall Street Journal opinionarticle.“In the two years after the
FCC’s decision, broadband network investment dropped more than 5.6
percent - the first time a decline has happened outside of a
recession. If the current rules are left in place, millions of
Americans who are on the wrong side of the digital divide would
have to wait years to get more broadband.”

Dear@realDonaldTrump:
'net neutrality' of some form is important. Your
opponents control most internet companies. Without
neutrality they can make your tweets load slowly,
CNN load fast and infest everyone's phones with
their ads. Careful.

Meanwhile, WikiLeaks
publisher Julian Assange has sought to persuade the Trump
administration to maintain some form of neutrality by informing the
US president that his opponents“control
most internet companies.”